Edimax IC-1000 Internet Camera

I bought this reasonably priced IP camera for €79 but when I got it home there were a few problems. First of all the Web front end doesn’t work with Firefox. I haven’t figured this out yet so I had to set the camera (resolution, IP address etc.) up with Internet Explorer (or the supplied Windows software). I had imagined that I would be able to go to the IP address and port and see pictures and/or video stream but its not so simple. Fortunately I found the script edicam2.tcl which enables linux users to use the IC-1000. Download it from http://gem.win.co.nz/mb/misc/edicam and make sure that you have tclsh installed

Now put the following script in your startup file
#!/bin/sh
tclsh8.4 edicam2.tcl -host 192.168..0.11 -port 4321 -serverport 1234&


Where
-host is where you put your edicam’s ip
-port is where you put your edicam’s listening port for the stream
-serverport is the port you want the webserver to listen on.

Now go to http://serverhost:serverport and you should see a static image.

That’s it.